GM! Welcome to the 7th edition of Playlist 🎮
A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the week’s most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on during the weekend 👇
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👉 Playlist Thread
📁 Reports / Research / Essays / Newsletters
Ancient 8 - Game Analysis of EV.io
Tradesgiving - First look at InfiniGods
CoinDesk - Decentraland, The Metaverse Casino That Wasn’t
Blockstars Weekly Newsletter - For all things NFT & Gaming in Solana
The Block Research - The Meteoric Rise of DigiDaigaku
Frontier Gaming Watch - Limit Break, Metaverse’s 1st Use Case & Microsoft’s $68.7b deal
Ancient 8 Report on EV.io
🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches
Starkware & ZK Gaming - 1 Year Anniversary of LOOT
Parallel + Bored Box - Games, Cards and the Universe
Real Third Web - Spaces with Undead Blocks
Crypto Raiders - Protocol Driven Development
FOGDAO - Weekly Blockchain Gaming Rollup #12
The NFT Gaming Podcast - Interview with Ben Topkins, Founder of SkateX
EVAVERSE - Spaces with Star Heroes
Soda - Sports & Gaming in Web3
GAITKeepers - Digital Assets, DAOs & AI Chatbots
Real Third Web - Spaces with Earth from Another Sun
FOGDAO - Everything we know about Limit Break WGBR #13
The Crypto Gaming Podcast - Interview with co-founders of Legends of Venari
Into the Metaverse #16 - Nvidia’s CEO is bullish on the metaverse more than ever
Limit Break and its DigiDaigaku NFT Collection
📝 Notes / Summaries
Tommy Shaughnessy (Delphi Digital) - Fave parts of Metaverse by Matthew Ball
🧵 Threads on Web 3 Gaming
LUXON: A new Web3 gaming studio, under LINE
Ryan (Delphi Digital) - FREE TO OWN, the new web3 model that will change game monetization forever
Levan (Jigger) - A study analyzing the number of bots in Web3 Games & Services
Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Why I created Real Third Web & what I’m betting on with Web2 & Web3 Gaming
sparkc (Wolves DAO) - Deep Dive on Pulsar Game
0xak_ - Contextualizing the concept of FREE TO OWN within NFTs & Gaming
Cryptodetweiler - What is GG Quest
Paima Studios - Tackling the problem of decentralized blockchain gaming
SPELLS - A decentralized game that anyone can build upon expanding on LOOT
Loot Realms - ETERNUM, first game set in the Realms on-chain reality
Advice to Web3 gaming studios that fail to build truly engaged communities
📰 Web 3 Gaming News / Updates / Action Items
A mix of news, updates and action items for notable Web3 games and projects
Scavenger Land - Teaming up with Polygon Studios
Phi - Launch of Testnet on Polygon Mumbai
Introduction to Ethernia, an Epic Free to Earn, Tower Defense Game
GuildFi - H1 2022 Report
Castaways - Play its pre-alpha island survival sandbox game
Play Arising - Genesis of Atia
Immortal Game - Platform Updates
SIPHER - July & August 2022 Update
OthersideMeta - A glimpse into the Otherside, B.C.
Immutable X - Staking Rewards Product goes LIVE
GODS Unchained - Daily Play & Earn
Eden Brawl - Gameplay Footage & Sparkadia Origin NFT Collection
Sparkadia Origin NFT Collection
🔍 Newly Spotted Projects
Games, protocols & projects that are new, interesting and under the radar
NoGame (@NoGameStarknet)
Space-themed MMO where planets are NFTs & resources are ERC20 tokens
13th Bridge (@13thbridgegames)
An Oregon-based gaming studio building a collection of games around Sports Royale starting with @RunTheCourtGame
RunTheCourt (@RunTheCourtGame)
Real-time, multiplayer sports game offering both F2P & Play-and-Earn pathways
Gepetto AI (@gepettoai)
Technology layer being developed by TheCultureDAO to bring together not just the current multimodal text-to-image but the eventual text-to-image, text-to-3D, text-to-avatar and text-to-animation-lighting
Hovercats (@hovercats_gg)
Interactive, live, multiplayer games in the puzzleverse powered by @hovercastlive
Scavenger Land (@Scavenger_Land)
Western-inspired F2P turn-based battle arena game built on Polygon
LootMMO (@LootMmo)
High-fidelity, action MMORPG built in collaboration with the LOOT community
Revelar (@revelarengine)
NFT Game Engine on Cardano building @Duo_NFT
Duo (@Duo_NFT)
NFT Card Game built on Cardano where players match funny prompts and punchlines to earn crypto & NFTs. Currently in pre-alpha
@0xknifegame
Personae Labs (@personae_labs)
Tools for character generation
OhBabyGames (@ohbabygames)
Web3 Gaming studio by @passytee that is building out several crypto games with both Web2 and Web3 elements
Paima Studios (@PaimaStudios)
Web3 Gaming Studio creating a fully on-chain game with NFT integration called Jungle Wars NFT Rumble
🗨️ Quotable Quotes
GameFi Season is coming back? 🤞
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